Princetown Review ranks New England colleges among most LGBT friendly
New England colleges and universities placed three out of the top five on The Princeton Review's newly unfurled most LGBTQ-friendly schools list in its "The 382 Best Colleges" book, released today.
The College of the Atlantic...
Rhode Island youth sports program partners with LGBT+ youth initiative
Project GOAL (Greater Opportunity for Athletes to Learn), the Rhode Island nonprofit that inspires academic achievement through sports—namely, soccer—is partnering with the LGBT+ youth initiative Play Proud to train coaches to help their programs...
OUT Maine awarded $100K to create online LGBTQ educational tools
OUT Maine, the Rockport, Maine–based LGBTQ youth support nonprofit, has been awarded $100,000 to create online educational tools for schools and providers.
Here's what OUT Maine is doing...
Framingham Schools’ trans-supportive sports policy seen as model for state
Framingham Public Schools has adopted a policy that ensures all students regardless of gender identity can participate on all sport teams. The policy includes guidelines for coaches to ensure appropriate uniforms, locker room facilities—for...
GLSEN study finds Massachusetts schools unsafe for many LGBTQ middle and high-school students
Despite many initiatives to make Bay State public schools more inclusive and welcoming to LGBTQ students, a recent national study by the LGBTQ youth advocacy group GLSEN finds Massachusetts schools "unsafe for many LGBTQ...
Register by March 4 for EqualityMaine’s ‘Spill the Equalit-Tea’ youth conference
EqualityMaine is proudly hosting its ninth annual LGBTQ+ youth conference on March 8 on the Biddeford Campus of the University of New England—and calling it “Spill the Equalit-Tea,” and it’s literally overflowing with activity.
Registration...
GLAD Legal Briefs: Discussing race, disability, sexual orientation & gender ID in the classroom
Over the past year, we have seen an alarming trend in attempts to censor classroom discussions about race and LGBTQ+ issues, from bans on teaching the history...
Massachusetts Public Schools to offer new LGBT-themed curriculum this fall
Lessons on the 1969 Stonewall riots and writing by Langston Hughes and Willa Cather and other notable LGBT authors are all just part of a new curriculum that includes LGBT-themed history, literature and health...
Portland, ME school board votes on ‘rooting out homophobia’ in schools
Portland, Maine's Board of Education is scheduled to vote this afternoon on a resolution that would turn a spate of threatening letters into a teaching opportunity.
According to...
OUT Maine launches online professional development portal
This just in from OUT Maine: Thanks to generous donations from Jane’s Trust and You Have Our Trust Fund, OUT Maine has converted several of its in-person trainings to online, self-paced, engaging...
